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quires less anti-rejection medication.
How does this story in- volve Marcia Hay- McCutcheon? Marcia heard about Tami’s situation from Tonya who explained that her sister-in-law had wanted to donate her kidney to Tami but it didn’t work out. Tonya was consid- ering being tested to be the donor but because of her responsibilities to her young son, Conor, Marcia thought it would be better for her first to be considered a donor rather than Tonya.
Marcia was tested and found to be a match.
The kidney transplant surgery took place on November 29, 2007 at the Carolinas Medical Center transplant unit.
Marcia and Tami were placed in adjacent oper- ating rooms. Marcia’s kidney was removed laparoscopically and transplanted into Tami.
Marcia’s surgery took about 3 hours. Tami’s surgery took a little longer because they had to conform the kidney to Many of us go day to
day without thinking about the vital parts of our bodies and how they work. We are fortunate to be healthy and whole.
What if you or one of your loved ones needed, say a kidney, blood or bone marrow – would you be willing to do- nate? What if someone not related to you
needed a kidney – would you consider donating one of your kidneys?
This is the story of Tami Elhardt and our own Marcia Hay-
McCutcheon. Tami, who is Tonya Bergeson- Dana’s sister, was born with only one kidney and was in End Stage Renal Failure. Tami lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her hus- band, Paul, and 1 ½ year old daughter, Allison.
She has been on the Carolinas Medical Cen- ter cadaver kidney list for a few months – the average wait there is about 18 months. Tami has been on nightly peri- toneal dialysis while she slept. In order for her to become familiar with
giving herself this dialy- sis procedure she trained for a full week of 8-hour days. Additionally, Tami had to carefully monitor what she ate:
pre-dialysis her diet con- sisted of low protein and low phosphorous (limit dark soda, cheese, pan- cakes, hot dogs, nuts) foods. Post dialysis she was able to eat high pro- tein but still low phos- phorous foods and had to be sure to limit potas- sium rich foods as these could potentially stop her heart.
Our kidneys remove waste products and ex- cess fluid from the body through the urine. They also balance the body’s fluids, release hormones that regulate blood pres- sure, produce an active form of vitamin D that promotes strong, healthy bones and control the production of red blood cells. Our kidneys are life-sustaining! A kid- ney from a living donor usually functions imme- diately, the success rate is higher (better than 90 percent for the first year) and the recipient re-
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fit her body. Almost immedi- ately Marcia’s kidney began to function in Tami. Marcia has now been released and will continue to recover at home for 6 – 8 weeks. She will return to work late in De- cember. It was reported that Marcia had recently ventured out to a mall for a short walk!
Tami has also been released and reportedly has a very hearty appetite!
Good long-term medical fol- low-up including a urinalysis and blood pressure check should be done every year and kidney function should be checked every few years.
Clarian Health’s Kidney Transplant center is the 4th largest in the nation. More detailed information is avail- able through the Clarian web- site at www.clarian.org.
Additional sites include www.kidney.org (National Kidney Foundation), www.unos.org (United Network for Organ Sharing), and
www.transplantbuddies.org (stories from donors and re- cipients).
Remember that you can desig- nate on your driver’s license that you would like to be an organ donor!
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Department News Welcome:
Margaret Pena—Billing Department, Collections M—Z Anniversaries:
Angela Thompson—5 years Publications:
Dr. Royer—GL1 Resident—”Cholesterol Granulomas”
in Current Opinions Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, October, 2007. Myles Pensak, co-author.
Drs. Fritsch and Mosier published “MRI Compatibility Issues in Otology” in Current Opinions in Otolaryngol- ogy Head and Neck Surgery, August, 2007.
Dr. Fritsch published “MRI Scanners and the Stapes Prosthesis” in Otology-Neurotology Journal, September, 2007.
Presentations:
Drs. Naumann and Fritsch gave oral presentations of their projects “BAHA Implants in a 9.4T scanner” and
“MRI Scanners and the Stapes Prosthesis” and a poster with Dr. Kristine Mosier, “High-definition Imaging of Inner-Ear Anatomy using high MR-magnet Strengths” at the Politzer Society International Meeting, Cleveland, OH, October, 2007. Dr. Naumann became the youngest member ever accepted into the Politzer Society.
Drs. Fritsch and Naumann gave a poster presentation on
“Phylogeny of the Stapes Prosthesis” at the AAO-HNS annual meeting in Washington, DC, September, 2007.
Dr. Fritsch gave two 1 hour course lectures at the AAO- HNS annual meeting on “Incisionless Otoplasty” and
“Salivary Endoscopy and Lithotripsy”. Two one-day courses with labs on the same subjects were given on No- vember 3 & 4, Indianapolis, IN.
Patricia Gatlin feels that a smile is always understood and a positive affirmation in any language.
~Please submit any ideas that you would like to share about what works best for you in your clinic or office. This could be anything big or small that you do to enhance the day to day operation of your par- ticular clinic/office to make it run smoother, faster, better, etc.
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AAO-HNS ANNUAL MEETING—WASHINGTON, DC—SEPTEMBER 16—19, 2007
Dr. Miyamoto, Jane Adamson, Tammy Huston, Pat Gentner, Marcia Harmon
Dr. Cordes and Dr. Parrish
Dr. Matsuoka, Dr. Ting, Dr. Miyamoto
News from Purdue
Karen Kirk, former Director of the DeVault Lab here at the School of Medicine is working on a new way to diagnose hearing loss in a way that more accurately reflects real life situations. Karen received a $2.8 million grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Com- munication Disorders for the 5 year project. Traditionally, people with hearing loss were put in a room and asked to repeat words that were heard. The goal of this research is to develop new tests that contain more natural listening situations with visual clues, different background noises, voice quality, dialects and speaking rates. At the end of the pro- ject DVDs with the test, instruction booklets, data-gathering forms and a manual for data interpretation will be available to professionals.
Awards
Dr. Jon Ting received the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation Resident Research Grant award for his proposal “Validating A Novel Speech Discrimination Test in Hearing-Impaired In- fants.”
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